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Blizzard
This deadly mix of freezing temperatures, howling
winds, and heavy snow can cause mass devastation.
In January 1888, a “Great White Hurricane” struck
the Great Plains of North America, creating snowdrifts
about five stories high. Around 400 people died,
including children on their way home from school. Tornado
The powerful, whirling winds of
FREAKY WEATHER a tornado will devastate anything
that gets in their way. In 1880,
a tornado in Missouri picked
Are you bored with sunny spells and outbreaks of up a house and dropped it
drizzle? Fed up with light breezes and a small risk 12 miles (19 km) down
the road, while, in 1940,
of thunder? But what would happen if the world’s a tornado in Russia picked
freakiest weather came to town? You’ll need more up an old money chest and
deposited coins dating
than an umbrella if the outlook is frogs tumbling from the 16th century
from the sky, skin-sizzling windstorms, and over the town of Gorky.
The world’s deadliest
hailstorms as big as basketballs. tornado occurred in
1989, tearing up
the land and killing
more than 1,300
people in Bangladesh.

Wild wind
Blisteringly hot windstorms
can shrivel everything in
their path. When one of
these scorchers swept
over California in 1850,
it killed cows, rabbits, and
birds and baked fruit that
hung from the trees. In 1991,
the diablo winds that blew across
northern California led to the most
destructive wildfire in U.S. history—
about 3,500 homes in Oakland were
burned down and 25 people died.

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